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Approaching the abyss of war

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
I don't know if we are aware, but, with the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, the world is in the most warlike moment since the Second World War. It is not my statement, it is the annual study on global peace by the Institute for Economics and Peace. According to their analysis, the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine were the main drivers of the global decline in terms of peace, as battle deaths reached 162.000 in 2023, this is the second highest figure in the last 30 years, and the Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza accounted for almost three-quarters of the deaths.

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The German party that came out of the left and doubled its votes in five months

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PASCUAL SERRANO
By now we all know the results of the elections to the European Parliament and we have drawn the main conclusions: victory for the right, leap for the extreme right, maintenance of social democracy and failure of the left and the greens. With slight variations, this panorama is the most generalized in the different European countries.

However, there is a phenomenon in these elections that is being analyzed little and that deserves to be studied because it may be perfectly viable to be carried out in many countries. This is the German party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Reason and Justice (BSW), a party that was founded five months ago as a split from the left (Die Linke) and has surpassed them by more than double the votes.

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Presidents who bet on nuclear Armageddon

7 min read JEFFREY D SACHS 0 comments

JEFFREY D SACHS
Since 1992, every president has left the United States and the world closer to nuclear annihilation than his predecessor. The Doomsday Clock read 17 minutes to midnight when Clinton came to power, but only 9 minutes when he left. Bush reduced the clock to just 5 minutes, Obama to 3 minutes, and Trump to just 100 seconds. Now Biden has reduced the clock to 90 seconds.

Biden has led the United States into three devastating crises, any of which could end in Armageddon. Washington seems to be single-minded these days: more funding for the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, more weaponry for Taiwan.

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Don't read this

5 min read LUIS BRITTO GARCÍA 0 comments

LUIS BRITTO GARCÍA
Everything you read, write, speak, record, photograph, or communicate on a computing device will surely end up in the hands of a U.S. law enforcement agency or its accomplices. The same will happen with your own data, that of your loved ones and your recipients, with information about everything you own, use, buy, rent, consume, borrow, throw away or want. The same will happen with your trips, infractions or contraventions: everything will be recorded and preserved even after you have forgotten it or die, for the exclusive use of surveillance agencies or monopolies.

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"I am the son of a genocidal maniac," stories of Argentine disobedience

12 min read CECILIA VALDEZ 0 comments

CECILIA VALDEZ
They have disowned their parents since they learned of their past and are working to modify the law that prevents testifying against direct relatives and descendants in Argentina.

“Today, when the executive branch seeks to deny, and even vindicate, the genocide, we have to insist that neither from the State, nor from any sphere, can an extermination be endorsed, not even with silence,” says Pablo. Verna, who testified for the first time in a trial against humanity.

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Pablo Beltrán during the interview in Caracas with Pascual Serrano. Photo: Globalter
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Pablo Beltrán, head of the ELN negotiating delegation: “They have tried to poison us to prevent a peace agreement”

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PASCUAL SERRANO
After the period of talks in Havana, the peace talks between the guerrilla and the Colombian government have entered a new phase, now in Caracas. After a first round until April 22, both parties will negotiate again in the Venezuelan capital between May 20 and 25. However, it does not seem that the road is being easy.
This is the conclusion drawn after the conversation held somewhere in Caracas with the ELN's chief negotiator, Commander Pablo Beltrán. A man who has been in the guerrilla for 54 of his 70 years.

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A historic ruling puts a stop to lithium exploitation in Argentina

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CECILIA VALDEZ
Following a demand from socio-environmental assemblies and indigenous peoples, the highest provincial court of Catamarca has prohibited the delivery of new permits for the exploitation of lithium and ordered that studies be carried out on the impact of all projects in the region, which means a hard blow for the provincial government and lithium multinationals, an essential resource for batteries in electronic devices and the much-mentioned energy transition.

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On Chinese threats and American friends

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PASCUAL SERRANO
As things stand with the new panorama announced on April 18, the American company Chevron is the only one that is granted permission to market, leaving the Spanish Repsol, the Italian Eni and the Spanish company out of the market and under threat of sanction. the French Maurel/Prom, all of them in commercial negotiations with PDVSA.

With the alibi of pressuring the Venezuelan government to be more democratic on the eve of its presidential elections on July 18, the “American friend” whom it truly sanctions is the European oil companies, which it prevents from marketing its oil.

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Milei goes for everything and against everyone

13 min read CECILIA VALDEZ 0 comments

CECILIA VALDEZ
The surplus hides an adjustment that has slowed consumption, destroyed salaries, increased rates, punished one of the most vulnerable sectors of society - the retirees - and fueled a time bomb in a country where more than half of the population is poor (57%).
Many of those who supported him (and still support him) are beginning to question the deadlines. The great unknown is whether Argentine society will be able to find some coordinated response to such an onslaught.

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The judicial farce against Julian Assange

8 min read FABIAN SCHEIDLER 0 comments

FABIAN SCHEIDLER
If the US authorities manage to convict a journalist for exposing war crimes, this would have another serious consequence. In the future, it would be even more difficult and dangerous to expose the sordid reality of wars, especially those wars that Western governments like to sell as civilizing missions with the help of embedded journalists. If we don't know the truth about these wars, it will be much easier to fight them.

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